T 1.1.7.16
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Perhaps these four reflections may help to remove all difficulties to the hypothesis I have propos'd concerning abstract ideas, so contrary to that, which has hitherto prevail'd in philosophy. But to tell the truth I place my chief confidence in what I have already prov'd concerning the impossibility of general ideas, according to the common method of explaining them. We must certainly seek some new system on this head, and there plainly is none beside what I have propos'd. If ideas be particular in their nature, and at the same time finite in their number, 'tis only by custom they can become general in their representation, and contain an infinite number of other ideas under them.
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| Cottrell 2015 | SBN 24 T 1.1.7 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … three natural relations, in Hume's view (T 1.1.4.1, Abs 35; SBN 11, 662; see also E 3.2; SBN 24). 32. In the Treat… |
| SBN 24 T 1.1.7 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … these works make it clear that (ii) is his considered view (T Abs 35; SBN 662 and E 3.3; SBN 24). ## J ONATHAN COT… | |
| Garrett 1981 | (T17-24) T 1.1.6.3 to T 1.1.7.17 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …plying the term 'oneself'. This idea of oneself is obviously a "general or abstract idea" (T17-24), consisting, as suc… |
| Ainslie 2009 | T 1.1.7 T 1.1.7 (20 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …an is sometimes assumed. Most obviously, as Hume shows his treatment of general thoughts (T 1.1.7), our tendency to a… |